Disclaimer: The Teen Titans are not under my ownership.
Summary: Robin's been spending most of his time with the resident princess, but will he soon regret this decision when he sees how much more fun the team is having together…?
Author's Note: Yay! I got reviews! I was surprised, truthfully. I didn't know people went for the anti-romance kind of stories. Well, this is the second-to-last chapter and I'd like to thank everyone who supported this story! I'm very happy to know that you guys enjoyed it.

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Smooth Diplomacy

"Terra, I asked you to get me blue cotton candy. What is this?" Beast Boy was tugging on Terra's last nerves. She'd been sent three times to buy cotton candy for him. The first time she was sent to buy him rainbow cotton candy, the second pink, and the third blue, and all three accounts ended with the same conclusion: she got the wrong one.

"Listen Beast Boy; just because I lost to you in Tekken 5 because of a controller malfunction, it doesn't mean I magically become your maid." Terra huffed in anger. She could've sworn steam was plummeting through her nose like an angry bull staring down a bright red flag… well in this case, a bright green flag. "You know the arcades here are whacked!"

"Come on Terra! If you'd stop getting the wrong one maybe I won't ask you so much!" The young changeling justified. If this didn't work he could always resort to morphing into that damned kitten Terra was so fond of snuggling in her arms. That always did the trick.

"I never get the wrong one because every time I come back, the cotton candy I last left you with is always finished." She parried. "If you keep insisting I got you the wrong one then stop eating the damn candies I got you!" An electrical tension arose between the two, glaring each other down so dangerously that the incident would've done Raven justice.

"I didn't eat them!" Beast Boy spat in denial. The boy scowled in an artificial pain that suggested his disbelief in how she could possibly accuse him of doing such a horrible thing. "And besides," he added, "what makes you so sure I ate them?"

"If you didn't eat them,' Tara deadpanned, "than why are there tiny pieces of colored sugar spitting out of your mouth whenever you talk?" Her green companion huskily laughed, slowly pacing backwards in case the frustrated blonde did anything drastic. "Whatever, that's the last one you're getting. Where's Cyborg and Raven anyway? They were supposed to meet us here half an hour ago."

"Maybe Raven went all emo-goth on Cy and now he has to deal with her crazy demon powers…" He blankly suggested, only to be corrected shortly afterwards with a stern "ehem…" Raven and Cyborg were striding towards them with satisfied smiles. Cyborg was carrying a bag of … stuff, while Raven had her arms wrapped around a giant chicken.

"Where have you guys been? I've been stuck with Beast Boy for an entire hour. And we were supposed to meet here, near the merry-go-round, a half an hour ago!" Terra stated if not shrieked in one long and breathless sentence. It took her a while to regain that loss of air. Cyborg beamed a knowing smirk at his gaming friend and settled the bag down next to Beast Boy, teasing him with the bag of 'goodies'.

"We ate, we talked, we passed by a video game vendor, and I won a giant chicken." Raven answered Terra's long awaited question. "Cyborg, do you want me to teleport our stuff home?" She offered. Cyborg enthusiastically nodded, overjoyed with the assured safety of his video games. Raven generated a tiny black disk in front of her and stuffed her giant chicken inside, throwing Cyborg's bag inside the miniature portal soon afterwards.

"So," Cyborg rumbled, "are y'all ready for the ultimate Merry-Go-Round experience?" Changeling slightly cringed as his inquisitive cybernetic eye stared all of them down. "I modified the mechanics a bit from last year. We decided that after eight the speed of the merry-go-round would go extremely fast. Its already 7:59 and we're standing right in front of it. Y'all up to it?"

"Sure, why not." Raven monotoned.
"I'm cool with that." Terra joined in.

"Wha-what happened?" Beast Boy asked with dumb interest. Terra rolled her eyes and pulled the stupid boy with her, following Cyborg and Raven towards the ride. The fee was normally two dollars a person, but because of Cyborg's connections, all four of them got in for free. After hearing an announcement about how the merry-go-round was going to be spinning faster than normal, the Titans mounted on one of the twirling teacups.

It was weird to see four adult teenagers cramped inside a medium-sized teacup, let alone considering how tall they were. What made it even stranger was that these young adults all bore serious expressions on their faces, sincerely anticipating the start of the ride. Each of them sat in their own corner of the cup, ready for the ride to start. 'I can't believe I'm doing this…' Raven thought.

Buzz…

And the ride started. At first, the speed was gradual, and the twirling teacup didn't twirl too fast. But the ride soon picked up speed and the twirling teacup was indeed twirling them to a spinning insanity. Raven could see Terra, who was sitting directly in front of her, melt into a haze, while everything else behind her liquefied into a mesh of insubstantial colors.

"Cyborg," Raven telepathically cried out, "the speed is too dangerous, even for us Titans…" They were all pinned on their backs due to the straining speed forcing them up against the inner teacup wall. Beast Boy and Terra seemed helpless in the speed sitting flat against the inner wall of the teacup, so Cyborg's brute strength and Raven's telekinetic support were their only hopes of stopping the ride from proceeding any further.

"Tell the receptionist to stop the ride; either that or teleport out of here!" Cyborg responded through the mental connection. By now he was struggling to force himself off from the miniature wall, desperately reaching out a hand for the wheel in the middle of the cup.

"I did! He can't stop it! And if I teleport my body will end up in pieces. I need to concentrate in order to teleport." Raven was also attempting to reach the middle of the cup, using her telekinesis as a rope to pull herself towards it. The velocity of the ride grew fiercer and fiercer, reaching to such a point that a mini tornado could possibly be achieved given enough time. Everything around the merry-go-round started to whip around in dangerous blows of wind. Luckily enough in the midst of this chaos, Raven saw from the corner of her eye a streak of hot pink energy…

"Jinx is here! She's messing up the ride! We're going to have to work together!" Raven finally reached the middle of the cup, holding onto the wheel for support while kneeling down with Cyborg next to her. "If we don't do something fast, everyone on this ride will die of heart failure or loss of oxygen."

"So what do you want to do?" Cyborg intently awaited his orders. If anyone could get them out of this mess, it would be Raven.

"I can feel her energy signature. You're going to have to shoot a sonic blast outside, but you have to shoot exactly when I tell you to. This will only work with careful precision, or else you might end up killing an innocent." Cyborg confirmed his task and prepared his blaster, using a spare wire in his arm to steady his 'handgun' against the wheel. At length, Raven concentrated on locating Jinx's exact coordinates outside of the merry-go-round.

"Cyborg, get ready…" Once the psychic pinpointed where Jinx precisely was, Raven was then to calculate how much time it required to shoot the darned witch with accuracy. Two rounds… six rounds… twelve rounds and she still wasn't ready. They only had one chance to accomplish this endeavor correctly, so Raven disciplined herself to wait for the perfect time. On their lucky 20th turn around, Raven mentally yelled the order "Go!"

A wave of cerulean energy shot from within the spinning havoc and as intended, the probability witch was directly hit. After a minute of much needed time, the ride decelerated into what a normal merry-go-ride would've been. Civilians inside were crying in both terror and relief, all alleviated from their possible demises. Terra and Beast Boy began to soothe their numbed heads, regaining steady consciousness of the world. Cyborg and Raven heavily sighed at their slim success.

"Our job isn't done yet. Titans, Go!" Cyborg commandingly ordered. Raven rose into the night skies with her cloak transcendently rattling behind her whilst Terra and Beast Boy leapt out of the cup on their own accord.

Cyborg attended to the traumatized passengers of the merry-go-round while Raven saw to it that there weren't any severe damages to the merry-go-round's expensive equipment. By this time Jinx rose to her feet with the help of her two comrades.

Terra glided over to the three villains with Beast Boy hurrying behind her in stallion form.

"Hey krud-faces, what's your problem?" The tiny member of the opposite team squealed. Mammoth was gently helping Jinx to her feet.

"What do you mean what's our problem? What's your problem?" Beast Boy snarkly responded. Terra had already lifted two boulders from the ground as an arsenal of projectiles in case the three decided to strike. "And besides, what are you three doing here?"

"What, we can't have fun in a public carnival?" Jinx regained her composure and strolled smugly towards the two titans. They weren't attired in combat outfits, so Terra and Beast Boy considered if there was some truth to what they were saying.

"No, you can't have fun in a public carnival; not when you're endangering peoples' lives." Raven elegantly landed on the ground opposite Jinx with a demeanor that was anything but friendly.

"Come on Jinx. These guys are being lame. Besides, we got my video game anyway. Let's juts go home." A sadistically cruel smile edged on Jinx's lips, revealing her amusement with the situation. Technically speaking, the Titans couldn't prove that she was the reason behind the sudden speed of the merry-go-round, so any accusations would be just that, accusations.

"You're lucky Gizmo isn't looking for a fight today. Better watch your back next time Raven." Taking a step backward, Jinx snapped both of her fingers and in a flash of pink light, the three were gone.

"Man, what was their problem?" Tara restored the boulders back into the ground. It seemed that even in relaxation trouble would eventually ensue wherever the Titans were present. Just as the three started to go back and inform Cyborg on what happened, their fearless leader's voice firmly called after them with a girly gasp echoing shortly in support.

"Raven, Terra, Beast Boy, what happened here?" Robin was marching towards them with a demanding face. What he saw and what he knew was still a mystery to the three Titans, so Terra decided to be the 'man' of the three and spoke up to answer.

"Jinx decided to screw the ride up so we sorta settled it...and no, we couldn't lock them up because we don't have solid evidence that they did it. The passengers are being taken care of now by Cy." Terra halfheartedly updated. "By the way, where's Starfire?"

"Starfire's been sitting on the Ferris wheel since we got here, and she still doesn't want to get off. When I saw the commotion here while we were riding the Ferris, I decided to take a look for myself." Robin dully reported.

"So shouldn't you be heading back there now?" Raven interjected. The three titans all wore quizzical faces, obviously expecting him to stroll back to the Tameranian princess. He didn't understand why they were so bent on getting rid of him, and it pained him in some way to feel excluded from the team. Robin could sense that a bond was growing between the other four Titans while he was left with a whining baby of a woman. He couldn't help but feel…lonely.

They were all so close now, unbreakable even, and he didn't know if another person could be added into the mix. Either way, he could still try. "Actually, she preferred to be by herself for the rest of the day… so do you think I can hang out with you guys? That is if you don't mind…" Robin timidly asked.

"Of course you can." Raven bluntly permitted. "Its not like we're in some private club."
"Yeah, it'll be fun with you around Robin!" Terra assured in glee. "But I suggest you hang out with Raven because once me, robot-man, and salad-head here get on a roll, we can get very crazy." She quickly followed up. And with that affirmation, the four Titans headed to give Cyborg a helping hand; while Robin made extra sure that he followed Terra's suggestion, huddling closer to Raven during the walk there.

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Ending Note: Okay, not that much Robin and Raven, but it's a start and I did technically 'end' it with Robin and Raven. Hehehe, please don't hate me. Well, the next chapter is the last one, but on the meantime, please review!